SWE – Software Engineering for the Rest of Us

Arian Zargaran
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SWE: Software engineering, explained like you're smart but brand new. Two hosts, one big idea a day, zero jargon left unexplained. If you've ever nodded along in a tech conversation you didn't understand, this is your show.

  1. 8h ago

    Episode 36: The Recipe That Writes Itself

    Mia and Leo explain machine learning through a bakery apprentice who learns by tasting ten thousand cakes: training data, models, predictions, and why A I sometimes gets things confidently wrong — plus spam filters, recommendations, and where the analogy stops.

  2. 1d ago

    Episode 35: One Cook or Ten? How Your Computer Juggles a Hundred Jobs

    Mia and Leo explain concurrency and parallelism through a busy restaurant kitchen: one cook juggling ten pots versus ten cooks working at once, plus processor cores, threads, context switching, race conditions, and why adding more cooks doesn't always make dinner faster.

  3. 2d ago

    Episode 34: Who Actually Runs Your Computer?

    Mia and Leo explain operating systems through a busy hotel: the manager who hands out rooms, schedules the kitchen, and keeps every guest from crashing the party — Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, plus memory, files, and why one frozen app doesn't take down the whole machine.

  4. 3d ago

    Episode 33: The Doll Inside the Doll Inside the Doll

    Mia and Leo explain recursion through Russian nesting dolls: a function that calls itself, the base case that stops the chain, and why your computer's folders, file searches, and menus all hide the same trick — plus what happens when the dolls never end.

  5. 4d ago

    Episode 32: Why One App Crawls and Another Flies

    Mia and Leo explain algorithms and Big-O notation through a dinner party: recipes as step-by-step plans, constant, linear, quadratic, and logarithmic growth, and why one app stays instant while another crawls as users grow.

  6. 5d ago

    Episode 31: The Street and the Treasure Hunt

    Mia and Leo explain data structures through a street of numbered houses and a treasure hunt: arrays for instant lookup, linked lists for easy inserting and deleting, and how engineers choose between fast lookup and easy change.

  7. 6d ago

    Episode 30: The Kitchen With No Perfect Layout

    Mia and Leo explain system design through designing a kitchen: tradeoffs between speed and cost, scaling out versus a single point of failure, caching, consistency versus availability, and why there is no perfect software architecture — only choices made on purpose.

  8. Nov 1

    Episode 29: Why Your Messages Travel in a Locked Box

    Mia and Leo explain encryption through a locked box: symmetric encryption with one shared key, asymmetric encryption with public and private keys, HTTPS and end-to-end encrypted messages in motion, and encrypted phones, laptops, and backups at rest — plus why losing the key means losing the contents.

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SWE: Software engineering, explained like you're smart but brand new. Two hosts, one big idea a day, zero jargon left unexplained. If you've ever nodded along in a tech conversation you didn't understand, this is your show.

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  • Creator
    Arian Zargaran
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Clean